Graham Potter is already at the time of choice

Graham Potter may have a wizard’s surname, but it is not with a wave of a magic wand that he will manage to raise Chelsea. 10th before entering this 22nd day of the Premier League and the reception of Fulham, the club is ten points behind 4th place, synonymous with qualification for the Champions League at the end of the season. This is the goal of management. To help her trainer arrived in September, she found him a potion that she would like to be miraculous. Overspending on the transfer window.

With the €121 million dropped in Enzo Fernandez in the last minutes of January, the Blues raised the bill to €340 million for the 7 players recruited this winter. We even reach 550 M € including the summer transfer window during which there have already been no less than 9 reinforcements. After a failed first part of the season, that was obviously not enough. Here is a considerably redesigned workforce that will have to be immediately efficient to try to catch up on its competitors. A perilous mission.

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Management wants to give Potter time

Difficult to imagine this team without the Champions League next year, especially after this fortune spent. The failure would be considerable. However, it will take time and this is what the leaders will grant to their coach. According The Guardian, patience will be required at Stamford Bridge. The board is aware that to get its game ideas across, long-term work is necessary despite the inherent pressure linked to the demands of results and dizzying expenses.

Chelsea even wants to use this second half of the season to take stock for the offseason. This will allow the club to carry out a large inventory of this considerable workforce, to which must be added Christopher Nkunku, already scheduled for the start of the school year in August. Some are already leaving quite a bit late like Hakim Ziyech, who should have been a PSG player without the administrative slowness of the Blues, but also Christian Pulisic, Kalidou Koulibaly, Mateo Kovacic or even Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.

An evaluation of the workforce over time

Inevitably, players on loan like Romelu Lukaku and Callum Hudson-Odoi will have a handicap. That’s not all because we have to settle the Mason Mount case, with whom negotiations drag on, his contract ending in 2024. Other English internationals are not sure of anything like Conor Gallagher and Ben Chilwell. Raheem Sterling, who arrived last summer for only €56 million, sees terrible competition coming with Mudrik, the two men preferring to play on the left side of the attack. The statement is made, the evaluation begins this evening against the Cottagers.